NATO tankers are constant targets of militant attacks in Pakistan. (file photo)
Unidentified militants have destroyed at least two NATO oil tankers in two separate attacks in eastern and northwestern regions of Pakistan.
The gunmen opened fire on a NATO oil tanker near Kamra city in Attock town in eastern Punjab Province on Monday and then torched the vehicle, the officials told Press TV.
No casualties were reported in the incident.
Earlier on Sunday, militants destroyed another NATO oil tanker in Torkham area of Khyber region in northwest Pakistan.
According to officials, the tanker was parked when the militants attacked it with explosive materials and set fire to it.
The tankers were carrying oil supplies for NATO and US troops stationed in war-torn Afghanistan when the militants attacked them.
Attacks on tankers and trucks carrying oil and food supplies to the US-led forces stationed in Afghanistan continue to see a sharp rise in troubled Pakistan.
Pro-Taliban militants claim responsibility for such attacks, arguing that the assaults are in retaliation for the non-UN-sanctioned US airstrikes on Pakistan's tribal regions.
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